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Day
19
Month
August
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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The calamit.v organs "vould like to tiave it read this way: "America for he importers." II tin' aflver sharka carry the day, 3ook out for the worst business crash tuis country ever witnessed. The bowling of the democratie newspapers has done more to creat' i Hssatisfied feeliug among the agriulturalfets than 'poor crops or hard ' Jmes. And now the statement is made on good authority that the importers )i this country liavc ralsed $500,000 Sio put into the Ohio canipaign to defeat McKlnley. Michigan wlll have a "modest cot agc" at the World's fair, It is announccd. Why not erect a tent and put the aquawbucka on exhibition in it ? The show would draw. The great calamity party are fearful lest tlie farmers shall have good ■irops and a toreign demamd for tin siimo. Without some calamity Hier no hopo for their success. lúe calamity organs are not al imu-il on f ree trade, free silver ainc wjiiskcy. They can unite on th test all right, but some of them ye iiokl tv.it for an honest curremcy. From the cditorials in the las Register, the people of Ann Arbor hav 'ome to the conclusión that that pi per is pavlng the way íor a polit -cal flop. It will not have f ar to r The men who are bowlAg for "mor money" are nuistly men who haven' .got any. and -vouldn't have any i dollars wen' lenty as the grains ( and on the seasliore.- X. Y. Pri B Ií experts ge; so tliat rain can be produced a1 will, swne folkswill want it te rain all the time. The New York Mail mul Express intiniates tliat the mugTVumps are ati.uived with severe melancboly. Too bad, isn't it? Judgc Durfee, of Detroit, holda tliat an agreement between a . man and woman to Uve together aa a inarried couple, eonstitutes a legal unión. The monthly statement of the Seeretary of the Treasury shows a net balance on hand of $155,788,715.00. This is the "iiankrupt" treasury about which the demócrata have been in dist ress. The Fenton Independent has struck upon an undoubted tact: '"lt is demonstrated t a certainty tha; a plañí ■ Bise ií the one in this place, cannot run successtully without a competent person in charge." A fourteenth Btreet dry vjl . ■ ■ ■ 1 - ouse last Sunday advertised Bmyrna igs ui Uiree square yards each for ile ai $2. 19. V'ell, ttoe duty on I ugs is 'il' ets. a yard and 1:' per cent. d va'.o.-em. or $2.80. We again ask e tariif is a ax '.'- X. V. Press. If the calamitj party should have i at -ie meeting ol the - i ■,! equaüzatiOD at Lanslng, ,. they would obtain feufficieni laterial lor a whole campoign. It s astonishing I coun■s i bate have been slipping OTvn th tobaggan slide i poverty Í late. .lames Russe.ll Lowell, the pi-ofes:-, .ui, ior and poet, died at his home i Cambridge, M.iss., early Wednesday ï'Orninü last. aged neaiiy 72 years. t is said o: Mr. Lowell that it was is argumenta that made Englaod's rand statesman, Gladstooe, a home uier. Certain it is that America has si a noble man. For the first lime it is learned that Ir. J. s. CJarkson, the newly elected chairman of the natiimal repubücan commlttee is uut an honorable. uIgh1 man. Did any of the democratie papers make this charge ? No. the nly paper in the United States so far to find it out la the Register, of Aun Arbor. It may be of Some interest to those people who are faüing in with tlie scbemes of the sflver Bharks to know thit the amount of money in eireutation in 1890 in the United tates was $24.10 per capita, While in 1885 ït was $23.02; in lSfi5, $20.2; in 1860, $13.85. A continua! increase. There is evidently money eo-ougli in the country. Private Dalzell, in a letter to the Detroit Tribune, befftowlng great raise opon (leu. Alser, ndds: "More, much more will it le appreeiated next 'ear, when we meet at the hive where nartinets . aristocrate and bondholdra and soldier voters abouinl: the ity -nhere Uves and oïways lived more nemies of the muaket bearers than vit lived in Richmond or Charles■on." The State Board ol Agrieulture has given Hon. Edwin V.'ülits i.hc degree of LXi. D., and the same to Justiee darse; ;ils the degree oí Master of VurieulUirc apon Hon. .lalm T. Rich. In Judae Morse's case t his aetion of !ir Board m.-iy cause considera'ble conusioii and much enrbaxassmenit. It rtU"be a questiom -vvliether to address ïim as Jmlge Morse, Dr. Morse, Justtice Morse. Lieut. Morse, Adjutant iloa-ae, Ooi. Morse. Gen. Morse, or the more familiar title of plata "Benenle." AVhy are the importers all Iree traders ? The question is easily answrred. Wlth the United Statee aaicat manufacturing and producing country, their otcupation is gone. They ctva not live as middlo-men on the hard werk of foreisni nnderpaid labor whein there shall be 110 demand lor ioreign made g'oods. It is 110 ■wonder then that every importer is a free trader, and that they should oontribute heavily to deïeat McKinley in Ohio, and crush out protection Avhcrever posaUfle. George Jones, the editor of the N. Y. Times, and the man who built that paper up, died last Wednesday, He was born at Poultney, Vt., Aug. 16th, 1811, of "Welen parents. Durillo liis liíetiine he ivas a chum with Horace Greeley. The great act of hiis liïe was the exposé and convictiou of the Tweed ring in New York. When that ring found out that Jones had their private accounts and evide-iice that would eonvict, they sent a raeseenger to alm and tried to buy t!u Times, oöertng any irice that might be placed apon it. That being refused, an offer of $5,000,000 was made to Jones to buy nis sitence, but he was not to be bought, and the rascally ring had to be brought to Justlce. New York should give Jones a handsorae monument. In Qii.s farewell address the immortal Gcorge Washington said: "Tkere is a rank due to vhc United StateB among nations, whlch will be withheld, if not absolutl,v lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoiil insult. Ave must be able to reel it ; if we desire to secure peace, oiic cf tne most powertul Instrumenta of our rising prosperlty, it must be known that we are at all times prelared for war." It is Time that we insistod apon taking our rank as a marattme power, and it is also time that avo put ourselves in a condition to le able to reseni any insult ottered ly any power. Blull ,often 1 1 ; i s been successful with us in times gone iy. imt bluff sometlmes will f;iii among the b:-st regnlated nations. We need plenty ol men, and guna t: back tliem np. We also need a Harrlson witli us; we may need somethlng more talk or diplomatic correspondence and acamen. Wc need ttoe pliysical force to carry out the good adrice tne Father of our Country iias giren US. And now it is tntimated that (m-.Scnator HUI will have tO iiive up the latter title and lead liis party in New Vork onoe more. Tic is too gharp, ppobably, to íaii lato such a Cleveland trap. If a farmer abould recelve a dollar a bushei tor lus wheai and bc pald in sllver ooln that ■was worth only 7." cents, he would Ik1 lncttned to kick, woultl h not'? But that is jnst what freo; sllver colnage wonld mean. Michigan wool beglns in look up in the Boston market. This moniIng's Tribune reporta No. 1 as bringídlí 84@35c, No. 1 comfolng 88@40c, and Miöhlgau delalae 88c. The demand is uood. The grave of Barbara Freitchie in the Germán Reform Church ceincterv aear Frederick, Md., is marked simply with a headstone hearing her name, age, and '■1m;iV' Tliere is a tangle of brier.s and creeping vines running wild over the mound. Fifteen tnillion leaflets and nearly tliree inillioii books andpamphlets have ed by the Cobdeo Club, according to the statement of the chairman at their aniiual meeting, lt is a 1 retty safe nferenee that nine-tenths of v i re shipped to the free trade agenta of the club in his country. Tlio common council ï Ypsllanti has taken up the questlon ol Bewers and ordered the same to 1mi uit in ai exnee. Two malns will lald, upon the east and ome upon the west Mdc of the river. O.ur friends down st-ream are evidently hustlers. Conid not our council seeure a poini r two f rom them in respeel to push ? A canyass made iy the New England Ilimiestead shows that verv few farmers of Xen' England and New York imlorse he new People'e party. While many avor independen! politica! actiou, when ïecessary to guard the interests of a;_'iiulture, uot üiore than oue or two per ent. favor the idea of a special farmers' ïolitical party. The sub-treasury and aud-loan measures are eousidered wild schemes, and even the free coinage of ilver has but a small following among hem. A busbel of beat is hauled by ruil 1500 miles for flve cents. Tlmt is pretty cheap, and the farmer cannot expect niueh clieaper railway service very soon. .t costs him five cents to haul the bushei about eight miles by wagon. If the cost of the wagon-haal were reduced to oue cent a bushei it still would be twenty-.six times the cost of the same by rail for the same distance, and the farmer would be ahead four cents a bushei, or about $21 on the average erop of wheat harvestetl from "orty acres of land. Ilere is the place for econoiuy. - Chicago Times. The June report of the Kansas State Board of Agricultura estimates the present wheat erop of that state at 55.000,000 bushels, the largest in her hietory. This bountiful erop will enable Kansas farmers to lift a part of the farm morí indebtednees so greatly magnified by the calamity prpphets. Boimtiful as this erop is, it does not come up to the expectations raised by conditions earlier in the seasoii As the resuit of special inquiry into the "causes oí the fallingoffof 20 per cent. in prospective yield, the secretary of the board places poor fanning tirst. The sooner Kansas farmers realize that no new-fangled system of finance, however allurmg, that no political revolution will make up the losses of poor farming, the better ofl' they will be, - Farm and Fireside.

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